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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's Tuesday, November fourth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. Yes,
it's Tuesday, November fourth. It's election day. Certainly going to
get into that. And this is Rogues one of those
weird news mornings. I say weird, but it happens in
newsrooms every once in a while. You got a show
all ready to go, you know what you're going to
talk about, big news about the sexiest man alive, and.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Then some other news comes in that mutes that a
little bit. And yes, that's kind of what happened. We
have to hit it all. But yes, we got word
this morning. It's a short time before we started recording,
that Dick Cheney, former vice president, has died at the
age of eighty four.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And certainly has left such a legacy behind on US politics.
And we will get into all of his contributions and
certainly honor his life in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, and so much to get to this morning, including
I just found out that there was something called a
beaver moon. You're gonna explain later why it's called that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes, I am indeed that would be.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Very much appreciated. Also, the shutdown on everybody's mind. We
have now tied the record for the longest shutdown in
US history. But there is a brand new wrinkle, folks,
that suggests this thing could go even longer than anticipate.
We don't see a way out now, but now there's
a new wrinkle that makes us even more complicated. And
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you know who's my favorite human.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Lately, Mackenzie Scott.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
This woman is doing it and just continues. She has
made another significant contribution, a generational, like a game changing
contribution to another university. We'll get into that. Also, this
New York City mayor's race, Cuomo just got a big endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Huge, the biggest endorsement ever and it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Came in a pretty lengthy social media post. You can
guess who the endorsement came from. We'll get into that. Also,
the Balco Do I say Balco? Do you know what
that means?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay? The Balco scandal, a lot of people will remember,
is associated with Barry Bonds, that ped scandal, the Marion
Jones scandal where a guy who was correct right now,
you got maryon Jones with a guy who was giving
drugs to all them he was the head of that
sc He's passed away and what a legacy people are
talking about he has left behind. Also, Diddy got a
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win in court. We'll explain that Snap benefits turns out
are going out, but we don't know when or how much.
Huggies and tailand all now go together. Also, we're getting
the terrifying details of that alleged Halloween terror plot in Michigan.
And Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has passed at the
age of what a life, incredibly full life, and she
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has passed away.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We just got talking about legacies.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
She leaves behind so much incredible art, but also a
wonderful daughter, and she announced her passing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We'll get into all of that, but.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
First up, Yes, Dick Cheney has died at the age
of eighty four. He served as vice president for President
George W. Bush's two terms, and he's widely considered the
most powerful vice president in modern US history. He was
a central figure in the War on Terror and getting
the US into war with the Rock.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, he dealt with heart issues. Pretty much everybody knows this,
so you know that he had heart issues throughout his life.
I did not realize however, wrote that he actually had
five heart attacks throughout his life. The earliest was when
he was thirty seven and running for Congress. His last
was in twenty ten. He then had a heart transplant
in twenty twelve. Now he is a consummate DC insider,
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and he served in Congress as a rep from Wyoming.
He was White House Chief of Staff under President Ford
and was a Defense secretary for the first President Bush.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I remember obviously Defense secretary and Vice President, but I
didn't even realize he was a congressman from Wyoming. In
the beginning, President George W. Bush tasked him with vetting
his running mates, but then he emerged himself as the
top contender. You know, and Bush had just won this
election the hanging chads against Al Gore. It was tenuous
at best, and so yes, Dick Cheney was considered a stabilizing,
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experienced force behind George W.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
His family says he died of complications of pneumonia and
cardiac and vascular disease. In their statement, they say Dick
Cheney was a great and good man who taught his
children and grandchildren to love our country and to live
lives of courage. Honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. That's adorable,
and he was certainly known to be a avid outdoorsman.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Next up on the run, we mentioned, yeah, it's election
day in a couple of places. Only five states do
off year statewide elections. But of course there are also
countless local races across this country. None, we dare to say,
more closely watched than the race for New York City mayor.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, barring something crazy happening tonight's or Han Mom Donnie
is poised to become the first Muslim mayor of New York.
I think the youngest as well. He's thirty four years old.
Poles half him away ahead a former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo. But Cuomo picked up a pretty big last
minute endorsement last night from President Trump himself.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Should we read the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
This is an amazing I put it in there for
a reason. I like to cut these up. But this
isn't This is wild.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All right here it is. If communist candidate Zoran mam
Dami wins the election for mayor of New York City,
it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing federal
funds other than the very minimum as required to my
beloved first home, because of the fact that as a Communist,
this once great city has zero chance of success or
even survival. It can only get worse with a Communist
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at the helm, and I don't want to send as
president good money after bad. It is my obligation to
run the nation, and it is my strong conviction that
New York City will be a complete and total economic
and social disaster should Mamdanni win. His principles have been
tested for over a thousand years and never once have
they been successful. I would much rather see a Democrat
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who has a record of success win than a communist
with no experience and a record of complete and total failure.
He was nothing as alymen, ranked at the bottom of
the class, and as mayor of potentially again the greatest
city in the world, he has no chance to bring
it back to its former glory. We must also remember this.
A vote for Curtis Sliwa, who looks much better without
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the beret, is a vote for Mom Donnie. Whether you
personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice.
You must vote for him and hope he does a
fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mom, Donnie is not.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That is what Cuomo. He made the argument for Cuomo
better than Cuomo did. Look, you can take it for
what it is, but the President of the United States
is saying, if you don't put this other guy in,
I am going to limit how much money I send
to the largest, most influential city in this country and
the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Even arguably that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's a big deal. So that's why I wanted to
include it. Well, the five states that hold off your
elections Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey, they'll all
be voting tonight. The governor's races in New Jersey and
Virginia are being watched very very closely. But it looks
like Virginia is going to get it first female what
it looks like they will there are two women on
the ballots. Then New Jersey. The Republican Chittarelli is really
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making in these last few weeks, really closing the gap
in some of the polls against Mikey Sherriff. Now one
of the most significant races of the night is going
to be in California. There's not a name on the
ballot for this one, but you could argue it's Newsom's name.
We're talking about Prop fifty out there. They're deciding whether
they want to redraw their congressional districts in order to
counter what Texas has done.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And we did an entire podcast if you want to
catch up on all the elections that are going on today,
that should be the podcast before this one if you
want to check it out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But next on the run.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Today is day thirty five of the government shutdown, and
we are now tied for the longest government shutdown in
US history.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And here's the thing. We don't appear.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Any closer to finding a way out of this thing.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So the Senate is going to do today for the
fourteenth time what they've done thirteen times prior to vote
for the same short term Republican back house passed bill
that would reopen the government. But now there's a problem.
Robes Senate majority of Leader John Thune says that even
if they passed that continuing resolution to reopen the government,
it wouldn't give them enough time to negotiate a long
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term appropriation's bill.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Let us explain, yes, you broke this down pretty well,
so this continuing resolution has the date of November twenty
first on it. That was when it was first passed
by the House in September. They thought that date would
give them plenty of time to negotiate a new funding
or spending bill. But November twenty first is now just
a couple of weeks away. So even if they passed
that resolution today, we might end up dealing with the
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deadline for another government shutdown on November twenty first. So
obviously that date is going to have to be amended.
And if that's true, that means the House, which has
been at home, they've all been at home chillin', they'd
have to come back and vote on a new, updated
short term bill. So, my goodness, time gotten.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is going to take time. Now all of them
are gone. You got four hundred folks. You got to
get back to the US capital to vote. If the
Senate does something. This is this was not good news.
This was not a welcome sign to hear continuing on
the run here. Now, the Trump administration is going to
tap into that contingency fund in order to pay snap
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benefits this month. That's good news, except it's only going
to be half funded, and we don't know when recipients
will actually receive their funds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's because the contingency fund has only around four and
a half billion dollars. The SNAP program costs about well
upwards of eight billion each month, so payments are going
to be cut, They're going to be delayed. Forty two
million people use SNAP benefits, which also are known as
the food Stamp program, and the White House warned that
now that it's using this contingency fund, there is no
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new money or any money for new applicants or any
emergency disaster assistance.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So we are literally the well is dry.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You ever used your mom? Ever use that line? Rob,
Peter pay Paul, Yes, yes, I didn't understand it when
I was younger, but man, once I started having bills,
you understood. I get it. Continue on the run now
to twenty year olds or in federal custody this morning,
accused of a Halloween weekend attack. They were plotting this
potential attack and they were possibly going to target the
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LGBTQ plus community. The DICH has charged Machman a l
and Mahead, mach Mood and An in an ISIS linked plot.
That's what they call it, a ISIS linked terror plot
to carry out a mass shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow authority say the two had acquired AR style rifles
and sixteen hundred rounds of AMMO. They had scouted potential
targets in a Detroit suburb, particularly in an area popular
with the LGBTQ plus community, and the charge officially was
handling firearms and ammunition and there obviously with some reasonable
cost to believe the weapons could be or would be
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used to commit a federal crime of terrorism.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
All right, we continue on our run here on this
Tuesday election day morning with Diddy. He just got to
his new Digs, you know, the federal prison he's going
to be staying at in New Jersey to serve his sentence.
But he is already scored a victory that could ultimately
shorten his time in prison. A judge has granted his
request to expedite his appeals process. So Sean did he Combs,
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as you know, was sentenced to fifty months in prison
for his two convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution.
But he's challenging the conviction and asked a judge to
speed things up for him.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So here's the potential schedule the judge set yesterday. Did
these lawyers will submit their brief by December twenty third,
The prosecution will submit theirs by March thirteenth, and then
the two sides will have oral arguments in early April.
His lawyers say his appeal will challenge the unfair use
of the Man Act that's an infamous statute with a
sordid history, to prosecute him for sex with consenting adults.
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Combs is scheduled right now to get out of prison
May eighth, twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I continue on the run now. At least six people
have died and twenty seven others sickened after eating prepared
pasta meals that were contaminated with lasteria. The meals were
sold at major grocery stores including Kroker, Trader Joe's, and
Outrobertson's across eighteen states.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The pastamaker is Nate's Fine Foods, and they expanded their
recall in September, but the company is now working with
health officials to try and find the source of this
lisceria contamination. Officials believe the true number of people infected
and sickened is actually much higher because a lot of
people recover without actually going to the hospital. And receiving
medical care to be tested. The deaths, by the way,
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occurred in Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Texas, and Utah continue
on the run. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Three time Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has died at
the age of eighty nine. We found this out from
her family. In particular, her daughter, actress Laura Dern, announced
her mom's passing, saying, my amazing hero and my profound
gift of a mother. Diane Ladd passed with me beside
her this morning at her home. She was the greatest daughter, mother, granddaughter, actress, artist,
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and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created.
We were blessed to have her. She is flying with
her angels now.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Lad was nominated for her roles and Alice doesn't live
here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. And Ladd
and her daughter Laura Dern were both nominated for their
roles in Rambling Rose. They are only one of two
parent child duos nominated for an Oscar at the same time.
The other was Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda for On
Golden Pond.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I didn't know that I had no idea. Also get
this Ladd's first ex husband, which is Laura Dern's dad,
Bruce Dern, released a statement about his former wife, saying
she lived a good life. She saw everything the way
it was. She was a great teammate to her fellow actor.
She was funny, clever, gracious, But most importantly to me,
she was a wonderful mother to our incredible, wonderkin daughter.
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And for that I will forever be grateful ter her.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I thought that was so cool that he put that
out there. And this was also a cool nugget. Gave
some insight into Lad's personality. At a book signing a
couple of years ago, she was asked for advice on
succeeding in show business. Here's what she had to say.
Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have
to fight like a dirty rotten dog. It just shows
her spear and she will certainly be missed.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
In her eighties. I thought, you love it to the folks. Yeah,
that age. But eighty nine, what a life? What a life?
Continuing here on the run another death of note, but
for a very different reason here notre I guess he's
notorious at this point. Victor Kante is the name you
might not recognize it, but he was the architect of
one of the greatest scandals in sports history. He has
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now died at the age of seventy five, but Victor
Kanti was the guy who found it Balco Laboratories in
the Bay Area and provided those undetectable performance enhancing drugs
to elite athletes, among them Barry Bonds and track star
former Olympian yes Maryon Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
His death was announced by a sports nutrition company he founded.
No cause of death was mentioned, but that scandal, if
you remember, erupted in the early two thousands and ultimately athletes, trainers,
coaches and more were convicted for their role in this scheme,
and he actually did four months in prison.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Several people got called and did some prison time related
to that. We'll stay with us on this Tuesday morning
run when we come back. A country has done something
that no country in the world has ever done. They
made a generational ban on smoking. We'll explain. Mackenzie Scott
keeps doing her thing and giving away money and changing
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black lives. We'll explain. Also, Huggies and tail and all
are in business together. The moon is doing something weird.
Robot will explain that to you. And we have a
new sexiest man alive. You might know who he is already,
but he has made history as the first openly gay
man to grace the cover. All right, folks, we continue
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on this Tuesday morning ron and one country has become
the first to impose a generational ban on smoking. Now,
when I first read generational ban, didn't exactly know what
they meant. But this is what they're talking about. Anyone
born in that country from now on is not allowed
to smoke.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Wow, it's a grandfather clause. But like the Office. Yes,
the South Asia Island nation of Maldives has imposed the
ban on smoking and all tobacco, but it only applies
to citizens born after January first, two thousand and seven.
Smoking has been so prevalent, especially among teens in the
nations of half a million, that they decided to do
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something about it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And so now it's like, sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm not mad necessarily, I don't know nobody here would
go for that, but they're doing something. You we are
going to stop everybody from smoking from here on out. Wow.
That's I would love to see this in a few years.
I'll continue on the run now with mus Kinzie Scott.
The role keeps continuing. The bill billionaire philanthropists at this
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point needs no introduction for our regular listeners of Morning
Run because everybody knows. I just love this moment because
of what she's doing and how she's gone about it.
But she has now gifted Howard University eighty million dollars,
one of the single largest donations in that school's one
hundred and fifty eight year history. We hear that a
lot about her donations. They end up being the largest
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single donation in some school's history. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That makes a lot of I don't know how many
other people could just drop eighty million dollars as an
annual gift per usual, though Scott gives this money with
no restrictions, which we love, and it couldn't have come
at a more crucial time. Howard was chartered by an
Act of Congress and is among a handful of universities
who receive an annual federal appropriation and they count on
that money. That money, fifty five million dollars, is normally
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issued in October, but with the government shutdown, that check
was never put in the mail.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
See all the stuff we're talking about. It has such
an impact. I even think about this, but people are suffering,
including college students. Yes, Scott has made several sizable donations.
She did it to three other HBCUs in recent recent week,
sixty three million to Morgan State University, fifty million to
Virginia State University, and thirty eight million to the University
of Maryland at Eastern Shore. Congrats once again to all
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those schools. But Mackenzie's got again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Salute you Person of the Year. We should nominate her
Time Magazine. Seriously, I mean the good she's doing. I
love how you say generational change, because this isn't just
impacting students now in the university. This has ripple effects
for an entire generation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's so cool to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
See all right next up on the run, Huggies and
Time and all are coming together in a major merger
of companies. Kimberly Clark is buying ken View and a
deal that is valued around fifty billion dollars. And you
might not know those names of the companies, but you
definitely have products from both of them in your cabinet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
This is crazy to think about some of these companies
and the whole they have on market share. But Kimberly
Clark makes Huggies, Clean Eggs and cottonell.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Check check, well I don't have Huggy sorry, cleanex and
cott Now.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yes it's okay, baby.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That was that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
No, we have time. There are ways, by the way,
has Thailand Hall, Listerine, a Veno, neut Regina, and Zytech.
They even have Benadrilla and band Aid. Wow, that's everything
in the cabinet now. Kimbu has, though had some recent struggles.
It was spun off from Johnson and Johnson in recent years.
Some say they were pretty much on the selling block anyway,
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and then President Trump recently linked thailand Hall use among
pregnant women to an increase in autism risk for children.
That obviously doesn't look good for the company. But doctors
and science don't agree necessarily with what he said. But
that's a huge merger.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It certainly is all right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Next up on the run, we are in everyone for
a lunar treat We already got a glimpse around four
am this morning. When I say we, I mean TJ
and I because we were up at four am. But
it was just a I guess, a preview of what's
to come with the Beaver supermoon. That is the largest
moon of the year. There is a little bit of
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a catch though, It's going to be at its brightest
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wait, so we won't see it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
We will keep reading.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Okay, eight nineteen eastern Wednesday, the moon will be at
its peak, appearing fourteen percent larger than thirty percent brighter. Again,
it's daytime, but we're still going to get a gorgeous show. Ah,
tonight tomorrow night will still it'll look good to us,
but it's not the peak.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The peak is at eight nineteen am Eastern time. So yes,
obviously that doesn't work well for lighting. But they still
say tonight's moon and tomorrow night's moon will be ridiculously beautiful.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay. And in the beaver moon, what we're talking about
is the closest point to Earth in its orbit, and
that makes it appear brighter and bigger.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, and the reason behind its name.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the beaver moon got
its name because this is the time of the year
when beavers take shelter in their lodges after gathering food
for the winter awe. The little beavers are about to hibernate,
or at least just chill in their dens.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I was really hoping it was a guy named Beaver
who discurbed it or something, but that I don't like
that story. I finally ron. Congratulations to Jonathan Bailey, you
sexy thing you. The actor is People Magazine's twenty twenty
five Sexiest Man Alive. He was announced on the Tonight
Show last night. The thirty seven year old plays Prince
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Fierro Yes okay in Wicket and He That was his
big screen debut actually in Wicked.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes and he also plays.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
For those of us who are fans of Bridgerton Present
Party included, he plays Lord Anthony Bridgerton in season two
of the Netflix hit Bridgerton and Bailey is the first
openly gay man to be named Sexiest Man Alive. Loved
this line from him last night. This is what he
said when he was on the Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He said that people named him because he's someone who
can really cherish the value of a sexy man.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I kind of like that one.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It was cute. It was cute.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I have to be honest. I didn't know, not that
it matters. I just didn't know he was gay, because
if you watch him in Bridgerton, he steamy heterosexual scenes
a bound, so it's like I would never He's an
amazing actor. I didn't know who he was and I
didn't know his name, but I knew his face and
so now everyone knows both.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
But the things he's big in that are my jams.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He's like Shakespeare trained, So it's funny now that he's
sexiest man alive. This man is like got all the
bona fides of having just seven yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Started performing at seven. But congrats. This is always a
huge honor. It's it's just a fun thing. It's cool.
I love that they do this.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I do too, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Quote of the day Today, on this busy news day,
we oh yeah, we're doing a Gandhi week, so it
was fun.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I got to pick another Gandhi quote.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
These are there are so many to choose from, but
today I picked Strength does not come from winning. When
you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that
is strength.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah. I've never felt like I was stronger after a win.
I got my ass kicked a couple of times and
came back from that. Now, right, you feel like you
got to work out in you had to fight through something.
Don't get me wrong. Winning is difficult at times too,
But no, that makes perfect sense. Kandia. It's just golden.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a reminder when you're going through it that that
you are building strength right now. And I think it's
just a good reminder when things are tough. Strength does
not come from winning. When you go through hardships and
decide not to surrender, that is strength. Thank you maham Gandhia.
And with that everyone on this Tuesday, I mean the robots.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us.
Talk Toil soon.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's Tuesday, November fourth. I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes. Yes,
it's Tuesday, November fourth. It's election day. Certainly going to
get into that. And this is Rogues one of those
weird news mornings. I say weird, but it happens in
newsrooms every once in a while. You got a show
all ready to go, you know what you're going to
talk about, big news about the sexiest man alive, and.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Then some other news comes in that mutes that a
little bit. And yes, that's kind of what happened. We
have to hit it all. But yes, we got word
this morning. It's a short time before we started recording,
that Dick Cheney, former vice president, has died at the
age of eighty four.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And certainly has left such a legacy behind on US politics.
And we will get into all of his contributions and
certainly honor his life in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, and so much to get to this morning, including
I just found out that there was something called a
beaver moon. You're gonna explain later why it's called that.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yes, I am indeed that would be.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Very much appreciated. Also, the shutdown on everybody's mind. We
have now tied the record for the longest shutdown in
US history. But there is a brand new wrinkle, folks,
that suggests this thing could go even longer than anticipate.
We don't see a way out now, but now there's
a new wrinkle that makes us even more complicated. And
(01:18):
you know who's my favorite human.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Lately, Mackenzie Scott.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
This woman is doing it and just continues. She has
made another significant contribution, a generational, like a game changing
contribution to another university. We'll get into that. Also, this
New York City mayor's race, Cuomo just got a big endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Huge, the biggest endorsement ever and it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Came in a pretty lengthy social media post. You can
guess who the endorsement came from. We'll get into that. Also,
the Balco Do I say Balco? Do you know what
that means?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay? The Balco scandal, a lot of people will remember,
is associated with Barry Bonds, that ped scandal, the Marion
Jones scandal where a guy who was correct right now,
you got maryon Jones with a guy who was giving
drugs to all them he was the head of that
sc He's passed away and what a legacy people are
talking about he has left behind. Also, Diddy got a
(02:14):
win in court. We'll explain that Snap benefits turns out
are going out, but we don't know when or how much.
Huggies and tailand all now go together. Also, we're getting
the terrifying details of that alleged Halloween terror plot in Michigan.
And Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has passed at the
age of what a life, incredibly full life, and she
(02:37):
has passed away.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We just got talking about legacies.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
She leaves behind so much incredible art, but also a
wonderful daughter, and she announced her passing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We'll get into all of that, but.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
First up, Yes, Dick Cheney has died at the age
of eighty four. He served as vice president for President
George W. Bush's two terms, and he's widely considered the
most powerful vice president in modern US history. He was
a central figure in the War on Terror and getting
the US into war with the Rock.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, he dealt with heart issues. Pretty much everybody knows this,
so you know that he had heart issues throughout his life.
I did not realize however, wrote that he actually had
five heart attacks throughout his life. The earliest was when
he was thirty seven and running for Congress. His last
was in twenty ten. He then had a heart transplant
in twenty twelve. Now he is a consummate DC insider,
(03:26):
and he served in Congress as a rep from Wyoming.
He was White House Chief of Staff under President Ford
and was a Defense secretary for the first President Bush.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I remember obviously Defense secretary and Vice President, but I
didn't even realize he was a congressman from Wyoming. In
the beginning, President George W. Bush tasked him with vetting
his running mates, but then he emerged himself as the
top contender. You know, and Bush had just won this
election the hanging chads against Al Gore. It was tenuous
at best, and so yes, Dick Cheney was considered a stabilizing,
(03:58):
experienced force behind George W.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
His family says he died of complications of pneumonia and
cardiac and vascular disease. In their statement, they say Dick
Cheney was a great and good man who taught his
children and grandchildren to love our country and to live
lives of courage. Honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. That's adorable,
and he was certainly known to be a avid outdoorsman.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Next up on the run, we mentioned, yeah, it's election
day in a couple of places. Only five states do
off year statewide elections. But of course there are also
countless local races across this country. None, we dare to say,
more closely watched than the race for New York City mayor.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, barring something crazy happening tonight's or Han Mom Donnie
is poised to become the first Muslim mayor of New York.
I think the youngest as well. He's thirty four years old.
Poles half him away ahead a former New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo. But Cuomo picked up a pretty big last
minute endorsement last night from President Trump himself.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Should we read the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
This is an amazing I put it in there for
a reason. I like to cut these up. But this
isn't This is wild.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All right here it is. If communist candidate Zoran mam
Dami wins the election for mayor of New York City,
it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing federal
funds other than the very minimum as required to my
beloved first home, because of the fact that as a Communist,
this once great city has zero chance of success or
even survival. It can only get worse with a Communist
(05:29):
at the helm, and I don't want to send as
president good money after bad. It is my obligation to
run the nation, and it is my strong conviction that
New York City will be a complete and total economic
and social disaster should Mamdanni win. His principles have been
tested for over a thousand years and never once have
they been successful. I would much rather see a Democrat
(05:50):
who has a record of success win than a communist
with no experience and a record of complete and total failure.
He was nothing as alymen, ranked at the bottom of
the class, and as mayor of potentially again the greatest
city in the world, he has no chance to bring
it back to its former glory. We must also remember this.
A vote for Curtis Sliwa, who looks much better without
(06:13):
the beret, is a vote for Mom Donnie. Whether you
personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice.
You must vote for him and hope he does a
fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mom, Donnie is not.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That is what Cuomo. He made the argument for Cuomo
better than Cuomo did. Look, you can take it for
what it is, but the President of the United States
is saying, if you don't put this other guy in,
I am going to limit how much money I send
to the largest, most influential city in this country and
the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Even arguably that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's a big deal. So that's why I wanted to
include it. Well, the five states that hold off your
elections Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey, they'll all
be voting tonight. The governor's races in New Jersey and
Virginia are being watched very very closely. But it looks
like Virginia is going to get it first female what
it looks like they will there are two women on
the ballots. Then New Jersey. The Republican Chittarelli is really
(07:11):
making in these last few weeks, really closing the gap
in some of the polls against Mikey Sherriff. Now one
of the most significant races of the night is going
to be in California. There's not a name on the
ballot for this one, but you could argue it's Newsom's name.
We're talking about Prop fifty out there. They're deciding whether
they want to redraw their congressional districts in order to
counter what Texas has done.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And we did an entire podcast if you want to
catch up on all the elections that are going on today,
that should be the podcast before this one if you
want to check it out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But next on the run.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Today is day thirty five of the government shutdown, and
we are now tied for the longest government shutdown in
US history.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And here's the thing. We don't appear.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Any closer to finding a way out of this thing.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So the Senate is going to do today for the
fourteenth time what they've done thirteen times prior to vote
for the same short term Republican back house passed bill
that would reopen the government. But now there's a problem.
Robes Senate majority of Leader John Thune says that even
if they passed that continuing resolution to reopen the government,
it wouldn't give them enough time to negotiate a long
(08:14):
term appropriation's bill.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Let us explain, yes, you broke this down pretty well,
so this continuing resolution has the date of November twenty
first on it. That was when it was first passed
by the House in September. They thought that date would
give them plenty of time to negotiate a new funding
or spending bill. But November twenty first is now just
a couple of weeks away. So even if they passed
that resolution today, we might end up dealing with the
(08:37):
deadline for another government shutdown on November twenty first. So
obviously that date is going to have to be amended.
And if that's true, that means the House, which has
been at home, they've all been at home chillin', they'd
have to come back and vote on a new, updated
short term bill. So, my goodness, time gotten.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is going to take time. Now all of them
are gone. You got four hundred folks. You got to
get back to the US capital to vote. If the
Senate does something. This is this was not good news.
This was not a welcome sign to hear continuing on
the run here. Now, the Trump administration is going to
tap into that contingency fund in order to pay snap
(09:14):
benefits this month. That's good news, except it's only going
to be half funded, and we don't know when recipients
will actually receive their funds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's because the contingency fund has only around four and
a half billion dollars. The SNAP program costs about well
upwards of eight billion each month, so payments are going
to be cut, They're going to be delayed. Forty two
million people use SNAP benefits, which also are known as
the food Stamp program, and the White House warned that
now that it's using this contingency fund, there is no
(09:43):
new money or any money for new applicants or any
emergency disaster assistance.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So we are literally the well is dry.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You ever used your mom? Ever use that line? Rob,
Peter pay Paul, Yes, yes, I didn't understand it when
I was younger, but man, once I started having bills,
you understood. I get it. Continue on the run now
to twenty year olds or in federal custody this morning,
accused of a Halloween weekend attack. They were plotting this
potential attack and they were possibly going to target the
(10:12):
LGBTQ plus community. The DICH has charged Machman a l
and Mahead, mach Mood and An in an ISIS linked plot.
That's what they call it, a ISIS linked terror plot
to carry out a mass shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow authority say the two had acquired AR style rifles
and sixteen hundred rounds of AMMO. They had scouted potential
targets in a Detroit suburb, particularly in an area popular
with the LGBTQ plus community, and the charge officially was
handling firearms and ammunition and there obviously with some reasonable
cost to believe the weapons could be or would be
(10:47):
used to commit a federal crime of terrorism.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
All right, we continue on our run here on this
Tuesday election day morning with Diddy. He just got to
his new Digs, you know, the federal prison he's going
to be staying at in New Jersey to serve his sentence.
But he is already scored a victory that could ultimately
shorten his time in prison. A judge has granted his
request to expedite his appeals process. So Sean did he Combs,
(11:11):
as you know, was sentenced to fifty months in prison
for his two convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution.
But he's challenging the conviction and asked a judge to
speed things up for him.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So here's the potential schedule the judge set yesterday. Did
these lawyers will submit their brief by December twenty third,
The prosecution will submit theirs by March thirteenth, and then
the two sides will have oral arguments in early April.
His lawyers say his appeal will challenge the unfair use
of the Man Act that's an infamous statute with a
sordid history, to prosecute him for sex with consenting adults.
(11:41):
Combs is scheduled right now to get out of prison
May eighth, twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I continue on the run now. At least six people
have died and twenty seven others sickened after eating prepared
pasta meals that were contaminated with lasteria. The meals were
sold at major grocery stores including Kroker, Trader Joe's, and
Outrobertson's across eighteen states.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The pastamaker is Nate's Fine Foods, and they expanded their
recall in September, but the company is now working with
health officials to try and find the source of this
lisceria contamination. Officials believe the true number of people infected
and sickened is actually much higher because a lot of
people recover without actually going to the hospital. And receiving
medical care to be tested. The deaths, by the way,
(12:23):
occurred in Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Texas, and Utah continue
on the run. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Three time Oscar nominated actress Diane Ladd has died at
the age of eighty nine. We found this out from
her family. In particular, her daughter, actress Laura Dern, announced
her mom's passing, saying, my amazing hero and my profound
gift of a mother. Diane Ladd passed with me beside
her this morning at her home. She was the greatest daughter, mother, granddaughter, actress, artist,
(12:52):
and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created.
We were blessed to have her. She is flying with
her angels now.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Lad was nominated for her roles and Alice doesn't live
here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. And Ladd
and her daughter Laura Dern were both nominated for their
roles in Rambling Rose. They are only one of two
parent child duos nominated for an Oscar at the same time.
The other was Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda for On
Golden Pond.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I didn't know that I had no idea. Also get
this Ladd's first ex husband, which is Laura Dern's dad,
Bruce Dern, released a statement about his former wife, saying
she lived a good life. She saw everything the way
it was. She was a great teammate to her fellow actor.
She was funny, clever, gracious, But most importantly to me,
she was a wonderful mother to our incredible, wonderkin daughter.
(13:38):
And for that I will forever be grateful ter her.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I thought that was so cool that he put that
out there. And this was also a cool nugget. Gave
some insight into Lad's personality. At a book signing a
couple of years ago, she was asked for advice on
succeeding in show business. Here's what she had to say.
Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have
to fight like a dirty rotten dog. It just shows
her spear and she will certainly be missed.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
In her eighties. I thought, you love it to the folks. Yeah,
that age. But eighty nine, what a life? What a life?
Continuing here on the run another death of note, but
for a very different reason here notre I guess he's
notorious at this point. Victor Kante is the name you
might not recognize it, but he was the architect of
one of the greatest scandals in sports history. He has
(14:25):
now died at the age of seventy five, but Victor
Kanti was the guy who found it Balco Laboratories in
the Bay Area and provided those undetectable performance enhancing drugs
to elite athletes, among them Barry Bonds and track star
former Olympian yes Maryon Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
His death was announced by a sports nutrition company he founded.
No cause of death was mentioned, but that scandal, if
you remember, erupted in the early two thousands and ultimately athletes, trainers,
coaches and more were convicted for their role in this scheme,
and he actually did four months in prison.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Several people got called and did some prison time related
to that. We'll stay with us on this Tuesday morning
run when we come back. A country has done something
that no country in the world has ever done. They
made a generational ban on smoking. We'll explain. Mackenzie Scott
keeps doing her thing and giving away money and changing
(15:21):
black lives. We'll explain. Also, Huggies and tail and all
are in business together. The moon is doing something weird.
Robot will explain that to you. And we have a
new sexiest man alive. You might know who he is already,
but he has made history as the first openly gay
man to grace the cover. All right, folks, we continue
(15:51):
on this Tuesday morning ron and one country has become
the first to impose a generational ban on smoking. Now,
when I first read generational ban, didn't exactly know what
they meant. But this is what they're talking about. Anyone
born in that country from now on is not allowed
to smoke.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Wow, it's a grandfather clause. But like the Office. Yes,
the South Asia Island nation of Maldives has imposed the
ban on smoking and all tobacco, but it only applies
to citizens born after January first, two thousand and seven.
Smoking has been so prevalent, especially among teens in the
nations of half a million, that they decided to do
(16:29):
something about it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And so now it's like, sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm not mad necessarily, I don't know nobody here would
go for that, but they're doing something. You we are
going to stop everybody from smoking from here on out. Wow.
That's I would love to see this in a few years.
I'll continue on the run now with mus Kinzie Scott.
The role keeps continuing. The bill billionaire philanthropists at this
(16:54):
point needs no introduction for our regular listeners of Morning
Run because everybody knows. I just love this moment because
of what she's doing and how she's gone about it.
But she has now gifted Howard University eighty million dollars,
one of the single largest donations in that school's one
hundred and fifty eight year history. We hear that a
lot about her donations. They end up being the largest
(17:14):
single donation in some school's history. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That makes a lot of I don't know how many
other people could just drop eighty million dollars as an
annual gift per usual, though Scott gives this money with
no restrictions, which we love, and it couldn't have come
at a more crucial time. Howard was chartered by an
Act of Congress and is among a handful of universities
who receive an annual federal appropriation and they count on
that money. That money, fifty five million dollars, is normally
(17:39):
issued in October, but with the government shutdown, that check
was never put in the mail.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
See all the stuff we're talking about. It has such
an impact. I even think about this, but people are suffering,
including college students. Yes, Scott has made several sizable donations.
She did it to three other HBCUs in recent recent week,
sixty three million to Morgan State University, fifty million to
Virginia State University, and thirty eight million to the University
of Maryland at Eastern Shore. Congrats once again to all
(18:08):
those schools. But Mackenzie's got again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Salute you Person of the Year. We should nominate her
Time Magazine. Seriously, I mean the good she's doing. I
love how you say generational change, because this isn't just
impacting students now in the university. This has ripple effects
for an entire generation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's so cool to.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
See all right next up on the run, Huggies and
Time and all are coming together in a major merger
of companies. Kimberly Clark is buying ken View and a
deal that is valued around fifty billion dollars. And you
might not know those names of the companies, but you
definitely have products from both of them in your cabinet.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
This is crazy to think about some of these companies
and the whole they have on market share. But Kimberly
Clark makes Huggies, Clean Eggs and cottonell.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Check check, well I don't have Huggy sorry, cleanex and
cott Now.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yes it's okay, baby.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That was that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
No, we have time. There are ways, by the way,
has Thailand Hall, Listerine, a Veno, neut Regina, and Zytech.
They even have Benadrilla and band Aid. Wow, that's everything
in the cabinet now. Kimbu has, though had some recent struggles.
It was spun off from Johnson and Johnson in recent years.
Some say they were pretty much on the selling block anyway,
(19:19):
and then President Trump recently linked thailand Hall use among
pregnant women to an increase in autism risk for children.
That obviously doesn't look good for the company. But doctors
and science don't agree necessarily with what he said. But
that's a huge merger.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It certainly is all right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Next up on the run, we are in everyone for
a lunar treat We already got a glimpse around four
am this morning. When I say we, I mean TJ
and I because we were up at four am. But
it was just a I guess, a preview of what's
to come with the Beaver supermoon. That is the largest
moon of the year. There is a little bit of
(19:55):
a catch though, It's going to be at its brightest
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wait, so we won't see it.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
We will keep reading.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Okay, eight nineteen eastern Wednesday, the moon will be at
its peak, appearing fourteen percent larger than thirty percent brighter. Again,
it's daytime, but we're still going to get a gorgeous show. Ah,
tonight tomorrow night will still it'll look good to us,
but it's not the peak.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The peak is at eight nineteen am Eastern time. So yes,
obviously that doesn't work well for lighting. But they still
say tonight's moon and tomorrow night's moon will be ridiculously beautiful.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay. And in the beaver moon, what we're talking about
is the closest point to Earth in its orbit, and
that makes it appear brighter and bigger.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, and the reason behind its name.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the beaver moon got
its name because this is the time of the year
when beavers take shelter in their lodges after gathering food
for the winter awe. The little beavers are about to hibernate,
or at least just chill in their dens.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I was really hoping it was a guy named Beaver
who discurbed it or something, but that I don't like
that story. I finally ron. Congratulations to Jonathan Bailey, you
sexy thing you. The actor is People Magazine's twenty twenty
five Sexiest Man Alive. He was announced on the Tonight
Show last night. The thirty seven year old plays Prince
(21:14):
Fierro Yes okay in Wicket and He That was his
big screen debut actually in Wicked.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes and he also plays.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
For those of us who are fans of Bridgerton Present
Party included, he plays Lord Anthony Bridgerton in season two
of the Netflix hit Bridgerton and Bailey is the first
openly gay man to be named Sexiest Man Alive. Loved
this line from him last night. This is what he
said when he was on the Tonight Show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He said that people named him because he's someone who
can really cherish the value of a sexy man.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I kind of like that one.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It was cute. It was cute.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I have to be honest. I didn't know, not that
it matters. I just didn't know he was gay, because
if you watch him in Bridgerton, he steamy heterosexual scenes
a bound, so it's like I would never He's an
amazing actor. I didn't know who he was and I
didn't know his name, but I knew his face and
so now everyone knows both.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
But the things he's big in that are my jams.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He's like Shakespeare trained, So it's funny now that he's
sexiest man alive. This man is like got all the
bona fides of having just seven yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Started performing at seven. But congrats. This is always a
huge honor. It's it's just a fun thing. It's cool.
I love that they do this.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I do too, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Quote of the day Today, on this busy news day,
we oh yeah, we're doing a Gandhi week, so it
was fun.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I got to pick another Gandhi quote.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
These are there are so many to choose from, but
today I picked Strength does not come from winning. When
you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that
is strength.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah. I've never felt like I was stronger after a win.
I got my ass kicked a couple of times and
came back from that. Now, right, you feel like you
got to work out in you had to fight through something.
Don't get me wrong. Winning is difficult at times too,
But no, that makes perfect sense. Kandia. It's just golden.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's a reminder when you're going through it that that
you are building strength right now. And I think it's
just a good reminder when things are tough. Strength does
not come from winning. When you go through hardships and
decide not to surrender, that is strength. Thank you maham Gandhia.
And with that everyone on this Tuesday, I mean the robots.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And I'm TJ. Holmes. Always appreciate you running with us.
Talk Toil soon.
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